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Continue reading →: Couple stand by “forbidden love”
Link: BBC NEWS | Europe | Couple stand by forbidden love. This brother and sister did not grow up together in the same family. If they had, most people would instinctively find the whole story too revolting for intelligent discussion. They met as adults, but interestingly did know that they…
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Continue reading →: Email leak was ‘to wreck honours inquiry’
Link: Email leak was ‘to wreck honours inquiry’ | Uk News | News | Telegraph. Curiouser and curiouser. Not the theory, of course, which Guido put forward some time before the Daily Telegraph, but the fact that the police seem to be briefing about it. Something "Downing Street" has done…
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Continue reading →: Another conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
Link: News of the World – Online Edition. I apologise to Guido for thinking his theory about the injuncted email contrived. It seems that police sources have alleged to the News of the World that Number 10 did leak the email itself, presumably so as to try to engineer a…
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Continue reading →: Terry Watch, because he has a public mandate to be a moonbat
Link: Terry Watch, because he has a public mandate to be a moonbat. If you have not yet discovered the comic phenomenon and anthropological curiosity that is Councillor Terry Kelly, then Terry Watch, my blog of the week, is the perfect introduction. Bookmark it, subscribe to it, tattoo the URL…
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Continue reading →: Let Them Eat Tofu, by Ann Coulter
Link: Let Them Eat Tofu! by Ann Coulter – HUMAN EVENTS. God bless America. Even her wet liberals can sing and she produces real Conservatives, with enough fire in their bellies to evaporate a Guardianista at 100 yards. How I roared at the following line: "The whole U.S. will look…
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Continue reading →: Tom Paxton
I have always liked a lot of Tom Paxton’s work. This, despite the fact that he’s an addle-brained leftist and that I personally saw him sign a petition in support of the IRA when I was a naieve youth waiting backstage for his autograph at the no-longer-with-us Free Trade Hall…
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Continue reading →: At the British Embassy in Moscow tonight…
… for a fashion show. The Ambassador made some interesting comments about the Litvinenko case. Apparently, a decision is expected from the Crown Prosecution Service shortly and may involve asking the Russians to extradite a suspect. He expects this to increase political tensions between the two countries, which are already…
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Continue reading →: Green talk but no green walk? | Ethical living | Guardian Unlimited Environment
Link: Green talk but no green walk? | Ethical living | Guardian Unlimited Environment. I honestly think this is the best confession I have ever read in Pravda The Grauniad. One of its writers effectively admits, without a flicker of embarrassment, that he thinks his readers’ principles are often just…
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Continue reading →: ‘Contaminated’ fuel fury
Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Drivers tell of ‘contaminated’ fuel fury. This is an interesting story. Early indications suggest that the fuel in question originates from Greenergy, an independent oil company specialising in less environmentally-unfriendly fuels. Its "mission statement," in typical jargon, is: To deliver financial and environmental solutions…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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